Thornton Dial “Don’t Matter How Raggly The Flag, It Still Got To Tie Us Together”
“If we going to change the world, we got to look at the little man.”
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Happy Independence Day!
In large part, the creative classes are saturated in globalist propaganda. The institutional indoctrination is very thorough, and of course most funding opportunities rely on conforming to the elitist gentry agenda. Sad!
However, there are examples of artists who spoke their minds about the fantastic nature of the American experience. In the United States our culture is currently experiencing the death throes of manipulative, oppressive Postmodernism. As we enter the new era of Remodernism, the return of art as a revelation, expect to see more artists express the ethos of liberty in deeds, words and pictures.
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Andy Warhol “Van Heusen (Ronald Reagan)”
“I met someone on the street who said wasn’t it great that we’re going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and when you think about it like that, it is great, it’s so American.”
-Andy Warhol
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Thomas Eakins “The Champion Single Sculls”
“Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans… must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.”
-Thomas Eakins
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Arthur Dove “Me and the Moon”
“What constitutes American painting?… things may be in America, but it’s what is in the artist that counts. What do we call ‘American’ outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change..”
-Arthur Dove
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Jacob Lawrence “The Migration Series Panel 58”
“Maybe…humanity to you has been reduced to the sterility of the line, the cube, the circle, and the square; devoid of all feeling, cold and highly esoteric. If this is so, I can well understand why you cannot portray the true America. It is because you have lost all feeling for man.”
-Jacob Lawrence
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Willem De Kooning “Dark Pond”
“I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something – a member of a team writing American history.”
-Willem De Kooning
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Georgia O’Keeffe “Cow Skull: Red, White and Blue”
-Georgia O’Keeffe
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Jack Kerouac “Untitled”
“I felt like a million dollars; I was adventuring in the crazy American night.”
-Jack Kerouac
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Grant Wood “Stone City, Iowa”
“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.”
-Grant Wood
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Richard Bledsoe “The Pop Star”
“Remodernism is the latest iteration of the American character: ordinary people working as explorers and inventors, optimistic, self-reliant and productive.”
-Richard Bledsoe
THE REMODERN REVIEW 
Thank you for this inspiring post today.
Excellent Richard. Always enjoy your blog. I think you nailed it as an American artist in this complicated and beautifully diverse nation.
Have a good one Richard. Even though we had to have a fight with those guys, you Brits did the work on democracy for 600+ years that made the US what it is, thank you.
America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. – P.J. O’Rourke
Thanks! I’m American by the way-a Florida boy, raised in Virginia, living in Arizona. The UK started the art movement I’m involved in, their influence inspired me to cultivate the same ideas here.
Thanks, I enjoyed putting it together!
Thanks Sandra! Your beautiful art remains an inspiration to me as well.
Sorry Richard, I didn’t mean it that way. I was trying to make an announcement to the British in general. But you’re on the right track with your movement.
I see,, thank you! I see Remodernism as a vehicle for individual liberty, very appropriate for this day.
Richard,
Here is kind of what I trying to say.
https://fee.org/articles/the-fight-for-freedom-begins-in-culture/
Down in the article he addresses the theme in the direct sense of what you guys are trying to do.
Great article, thanks for sharing! Power has sure infringed on the quality of the arts-but now we are taking them back!